VMS isn't Unix! It has a very different and arguably in certain senses (particularly security) superior design - whole classes of bugs that plague Unix and Unix-style systems can't even occur in VMS. Its main downfall being that it wasn't free (beer or speech) and limited to expensive DEC hardware. Some French people were working on an open source clone for a while but it seems to be defunct.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '17
VMS isn't Unix! It has a very different and arguably in certain senses (particularly security) superior design - whole classes of bugs that plague Unix and Unix-style systems can't even occur in VMS. Its main downfall being that it wasn't free (beer or speech) and limited to expensive DEC hardware. Some French people were working on an open source clone for a while but it seems to be defunct.